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Films
3 Films
Keywords
“Family Kinship”
and
“Family Kinship”
and
“Gender Role and Identity”
x
Country of production
“United States”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
South Asia
1
Country
Bangladesh
1
China
1
Kenya
1
Keywords
Family / Kinship
3
x
Gender Role and Identity
3
x
Marriage
2
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Johnston, Ned
1
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
1
Seaman, Gary
1
Song, Zhifang
1
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
Song Family Village
1
Turkana Conversations
1
not set
1
Country of production
Australia
1
China
1
United States
3
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Year of production
1981
1
1989
1
2009
1
Film list
Seed and Earth
1989
36
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
A Wife Among Wives
1981
72
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
This segment of the trilogy on the Turkana of northern Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘The Wedding Camels’ above) evolves around the role of women in the society. The audience follows the
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Family / Kinship